The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.
Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.
At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.
Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.
Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.